Japantown

Japantown sees frequent turnover along Sawtelle Boulevard, but some restaurants have become neighborhood haunts. Mizu 212 is a corner shabu shabu bar named for the temperature where water boils that has always intrigued me....

Much has been made of Killer Noodle‘s “7 Fundamentals.” At the latest Japantown restaurant from chef Takeshi Tsujita, which is wall-to-wall red and houses a bar lined with jars of fiery spices, it’s hard...

Tsujita LA rose to the top of the L.A. ramen heap when Takehiro Tsujita started serving lunch-time only tonkotsu (and tsukemen) on Little Osaka’s Sawtelle Boulevard in 2012, but that wasn’t enough for the...

Tsuyoshi Ihara is a Japanese actor who appeared in “Letters From Iwo Jima” alongside Ken Watanabe. He’s also a restaurateur. In August, he opened an L.A. outpost of Gottsui, a popular Tokyo okonomiyaki parlor...

The hype surrounding Tsujita’s tsukemen reached a fever pitch by the time Takehiro Tsujita’s Tokyo import debuted on July 30, but the lunchtime dipping ramen wasn’t available for the first month of business, so...